Today in History

As millions descend on Shanghai for the opening of the world's fair this weekend, we take a look back at New York's 1939 World's Fair, which opened on this date 71 years ago.

On April 8, 1935, Congress approved President Franklin D. Roosevelt's Works Progress Administration.

It was no April Fool's Day joke in 1970 when President Richard Nixon signed the Public Health Cigarette Smoking Act.

On Saturday afternoon, March 25, 1911, a fire broke out in the Triangle Waist Company, a garment manufacturer in lower Manhattan.

On this day in 1933, Fay Wray's iconic scream rattled ear drums for the first time, while her co-star's subsequent roar terrified moviegoers.

Today marks the anniversary of the February 26, 1993 World Trade Center bombing that claimed the lives of six people and injured more than 1,000.

On this day in 1880, Edison patented the electric light bulb: U.S. Patent 0,223,898.

Today in 1961 John F. Kennedy Jr. was inaugurated the 35th president

On this day in 1935 Amelia Earhart completed the first solo flight from Honolulu to Oakland, California.

On January 6, 1838 Samuel Morse publicly demonstrated the telegraph for the first time.

On this day in 1941, President Franklin D. Roosevelt delivered an address known as the Four Freedoms Speech to Congress.

John Lennon is murdered.

A day that will live in infamy.

Rosa Parks is arrested Dec. 1, 1955.

JFK laid to rest.